Henry Everard Explained

Honorific-Prefix:Lieutenant-Colonel
Henry Everard
Office:President of Rhodesia
Primeminister:Ian Smith
Term Start:31 December 1975
Term End:14 January 1976
Predecessor:Clifford Dupont
Successor:John Wrathall
Term Start1:31 August 1978
Term End1:1 November 1978
Primeminister1:Ian Smith
Predecessor1:John Wrathall
Term Start2:5 March 1979
Term End2:1 June 1979
Primeminister2:Ian Smith
Successor2:Office Abolished
Birth Date:21 February 1897
Birth Place:Barnet, United Kingdom
Death Place:Salisbury, Zimbabwe
Nationality:British
Party:Rhodesian Front
Alma Mater:Trinity College, Cambridge

Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Breedon Everard (21 February 18977 August 1980) was a railway engineer and executive who briefly became the Acting President of Rhodesia on three occasions between 1975 and 1979.

Everard was born in Barnet and educated at Marlborough College and graduated from Trinity College, Cambridge in 1922.[1] During the First World War he served in France with the Rifle Brigade, where he was wounded in combat and reached the rank of captain. He worked as a railway engineer from 1922, but was commissioned again on the outbreak of the Second World War, this time in the Sherwood Foresters; he was taken prisoner by German forces, awarded the Distinguished Service Order, and reached the rank of lieutenant-colonel. When repatriated after the war he became an executive of British Railways.

In 1953 Everard moved to Bulawayo, Southern Rhodesia to become General Manager of Rhodesia Railways, which he remained for five years before retiring. He supported the Rhodesian Front and stood in for Clifford Dupont (who had been made "Officer Administering the Government") in 1968–69.[2] Following the proclamation of a republic, Everard was Acting President on three occasions between 1975 and 1979.[3]

His maternal first cousin was the eminent scientist Professor Naomi Datta; their maternal grandfather's first cousins were architect Henry Goddard and Mormon pioneer George Goddard.

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Notes and References

  1. The Cambridge University List of Members, 1976
  2. https://books.google.com/books?id=xREiAQAAIAAJ&q=%22Henry+Everard%22++ Survey of British and Commonwealth Affairs
  3. https://books.google.com/books?id=TzOxCwAAQBAJ&dq=%22Henry+Everard%22+rhodesia&pg=PA265 Heads of State and Government